Rushes Soho Shorts Festival is Now Calling for Submissions

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Press Release from Rushes Soho Shorts

(January 4, 2011) – Rushes Soho Shorts is now calling for submissions for their 13th celebration of everything short. Renowned for maintaining a significant bridge between the independent and commercial filmmaking communities, the annual not-for-profit festival celebrates the previous year’s best director in each of eight competition categories:

The Short Film Award: For live action, fictional work by experienced filmmakers in the UK, under 12 minutes
The Newcomer Award: For live action, fictional work by new filmmakers in the UK, under 12 minutes
The International Award: For live action, fictional work by filmmakers outside the UK, under 12 minutes
The Long Form Award: For live action, fictional work by filmmakers from around the world, under 30 minutes
The Documentary Award: For factual work by filmmakers from around the world, under 12 minutes
The Animation Award: For factual and fictional work by filmmakers from around the world, under 12 minutes
The Music Video Award: For music promos by filmmakers from around the world, under 12 minutes
The Broadcast Design Award: For branded content, title sequences, idents, commercial sequences, spots, digital posters and work specifically designed for multiplatform distribution including the internet and mobile networks by filmmakers from around the world and under 5 minutes

Work can be submitted at http://entries.sohoshorts.com [1]

The competition entry fee is £15.00.

Work should have been completed between 1st January 2010 and April 2011.

Films can be submitted up until 21st April with the shortlisted films being announced early in June.

The festival will open on Wednesday 20th July and will culminate, as is tradition, with the Rushes Awards on Thursday 28th July 2010.

Full terms and conditions are available on the entry site http://entries.sohoshorts.com [1] and further information can be found at www.sohoshorts.com [2]